Author Jim O'Donnell Presents "Fountain Creek: Big Lessons from a Little River"

Pikes Peak Library District welcomes author and journalist Jim O'Donnell to speak on his book Fountain Creek: Big Lessons from a Little River:

From its headwaters high up Colorado’s legendary Pike’s Peak to suburban concrete-lined canals, Fountain Creek
has endured nearly everything humans could do to a single watershed. It has been dammed, diverted, drained,
poisoned, restored, exploited, ignored—and yet it has survived.
Journalist and archaeologist Jim O’Donnell grew up exploring among the beavers and discarded beer bottles that
have long populated Fountain Creek. Irreverent, deeply knowledgeable, and endlessly curious, O’Donnell guides
us through the contradictions and complexities of one of the most heavily urbanized areas in one of the fastestgrowing
states in the nation.
Fountain Creek is at once a reflection of our ever-changing relationship to the natural world and a challenge for
each of us to reexamine the many ways we are connected to the world around us, to water, and to each other.

Join us for the author's presentation followed by a Q&A discussion.  Seating is limited -- registration is required.  Copies of Fountain Creek will be available for purchase and signing after the presentation.

About the author:  Jim O’Donnell is a writer and photographer whose work has appeared in Sierra Magazine, El Palacio, and elsewhere. After a career in archaeology and journalism, O’Donnell continues to work as a community conservation activist and wilderness advocate in the American Southwest where he fights to protect and restore wetlands and watersheds. Born and raised in southern Colorado, O’Donnell lives in Taos, New Mexico.